Kwara State
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2025 Kwara State Climate Governance Profile
Rank: 16 (shared: Kwara, Anambra) | Total Score: 190 / 365 | Performance Category: Good
Trend: ↓ (fell from Rank 10 in 2024 to Rank 16 in 2025)
Overview
Kwara’s institutional reach and implementation record remain solid but policy completeness and online reporting weakened. Kwara should finalise a costed climate policy and strengthen digital MRV consolidation.
Thematic Performance
- Administrative Framework & Institutional Arrangements — 75 / 140
- Climate Policy & Action Plan — 20 / 60
- Project Implementation & Monitoring — 40 / 55
- Climate Finance & Budget Allocation — 25 / 60
- Online Visibility & Climate Communication — 25 / 50
Comparative Highlights
- Strong institutional activity but poor policy completeness reduces strategic coherence.
Key Strengths
- Capacity-building initiatives and LGA interfaces.
- Proven project delivery in core sectors.
Key Gaps / Challenges
- Weak policy architecture relative to institutions.
- Limited public MRV.
Recommendations
- Draft and adopt a state climate policy with a costed action plan.
- Create a simple public dashboard linking budgets to projects.
- Conduct a finance-readiness assessment for two priority projects.
State Climate Leadership Profile
State: Kwara
Ministry: Kwara State Ministry of Environment, Ahmadu Bello Way, Ilorin
Role: Director / Climate Change Desk Officer
Name: Ilias Abdulghaniyy Olawale
Bio Summary
Name: Ilias Abdulghaniyy Olawale, MNES
Date of Birth: 23rd August 1975
Marital status: Married
GSM: 08034208229
Email: abdulghaniyyilias@gmail.com
Office Address: Kwara State Ministry of Environment, Ahmadu Bello Way, GRA, Ilorin
Position: HOD, Department Of Climate Change and Environmental Assessment.
Secretary, Kwara State Inter Ministerial Committee on Climate Change(KWICCC).
Academic Qualifications: BSc. Industrial Chemistry(2000),
MSc. Industrial Chemistry(2009).
Professional Qualifications;
ISO 17025 Certified
Advanced Certificate in Environmental Standards (FMEnv/WB)
Certificate in Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (WSP)
Certificate in Climate Change and Renewable Energy (LPMV)
Certificate in Nature Based Solution for National Adaptation Plan(UNEP)
Certificate in HSE 1,2,3(in view)
Participations and Contributions to Climate Actions;
Initiated the creation of the present Climate Change and Environmental Assessment Unit in the Ministry.
Initiated the present KWICCC.
Initiated the drafting and review of the recently validated Kwara State Environmental and Climate Change Policy and Action plan.
Participant at EIA Scoping and Panel Review Exercise of Major Projects in Kwara State
Member TWG Kwara State Health National Adaptation Plan (KwHNAP)
Member Nigerian Environment Society
NCCC Trained COP Negotiator
Participant at Stakeholders Engagement for NAPs, BTRs & NDCs drafting, review and validation.
Publications;
A Journal tittled: Conversion of waste polythene to Alkylbenzenes
A Chemistry text book tittled: No Chemistry, No Life.
2024 Kwara State Climate Governance Profile
2024 Kwara Profile
| State | Climate Governance Structure | Legislative Oversight | Climate Change Advisory Roles | Local Government Focal Persons | CSO/NGO Engagement | Climate Action Plans or Policies | Emission Reduction Targets | Periodic Climate Conferences | Recent Climate Projects | Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) | Climate Consideration in 2024 Budget | Green Bond Provisions | Online Visibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kwara | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Draft | No | No | Afforestation in schools | Partial | Yes (unclear) | No | Moderate |
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